CT: Juvenile winners connect Sigler, Farrior barns
Ted Black
December 4, 2025
The month of November began and ended with a pair of West Virginia-bred stakes for two-year-olds, both won by the same freshman filly.
But she wasn’t the only juvenile of note at Charles Town, as a pair of recent maiden special weight winners joined the spotlight when they graduated in style during November’s final week of live racing.
The wins connect the barns of trainers Ron Sigler and Anthony Farrior.
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Three weeks after she settled for minor spoils in the West Virginia Triple Crown Nutrition Breeders’ Classic for state-bred two-year-old fillies, Maskedandmummed regained her winning ways by capturing the $75,000 James Eleanor Casey Memorial on Nov. 1 for trainer Ronald Sigler and owner-breeder Casey’s Legacy LLC. Three weeks after that, the juvenile daughter of Candygram notched her second straight stakes tally when she prevailed in the Nov. 22 $50,000 added West Virginia Futurity, in which three of the four starters were fillies.
“She really never ran a bad race,” Sigler said of Maskedandmummed, who concluded her freshman campaign with three wins and over $120,000 banked from seven starts. “Even when she was third in the Breeders’ Classics, I thought she ran her race that night. She came right back and won the next stakes when I was in Las Vegas, but then she won the West Virginia Futurity in her last start. She’s going to get some time off now and I’ll look to bring her back sometime in the spring and see what she can do next year. I’m expecting her to be even better as a three-year-old.”
During the last week of November a pair of two-year-olds, one filly and one gelding, both trained by Anthony Farrior and one with ties to Sigler and his family, graduated sharply in one-turn maiden special weight events at Charles Town.
On Nov. 26 Priority One was ultra-impressive when she won at first asking by six lengths while getting the 4 1/2 furlongs in 52.27 seconds as the even-money choice with Arnaldo Bocachica aboard.
The daughter of Fiber Sonde, a homebred for Jill Daniel, is a half-sister to speedy, state-bred stakes winner Stryda, a winner of 14 races and nearly $300,000. Priority One had impressed Farrior with her morning drills leading up to her debut and validated those works with her performance on Thanksgiving Day eve.
That may be all we see of Priority One this year, though, as Farrior said she has “a few minor issues.” None of those was in evidence in her debut or in her morning works leading to the race.
“Her last two works were really fast,” Farrior said of Priority One’s bullet gate drills on Nov. 7 and Nov. 14. “She was outworking everything else I had those days, and we were doing all we could to take her back a little both times. She’s a half-sister to Stryda, who is a really fast filly up here.”
Three days later, Farrior sent out Coach Siggy, named for Ronald Sigler’s late son, Tyler Sigler, 28, a former high school wrestling coach who passed away in an accident last May. Coach Siggy easily garnered his diploma in his second career start.
“Me and Ronnie have been close for a long time,” said Farrior, who has saddled 231 winners this year as of Dec. 3. “I asked him if I could name that colt for his son Tyler, who died when a tree fell on his golf cart at Locust Hill [Golf Course]. He ran well first time out and finished second, but I felt a lot of pressure on me to win last weekend. There were a lot of the Sigler family members there for that race. Thankfully he broke sharp and won.”
“Anthony and I have been good friends for many years,” Sigler said. “He was definitely a little nervous the other night. He told me he felt like there was more pressure on him to win that race than any of the stakes races. That horse broke well, and he won like most people expected he would. It was great to have so many of Tyler’s friends in the winners’ circle with us that night. I have to admit I could not hold back the tears after that race.”
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